After reading an article in the Dec 12 edition of The Hockey News (on newstands now) it seems obvious that the most successful player in the NHL now, and maybe of All-Time is none other then Scott Niedermayer.

We all know there are a bunch of teams that aren’t going to make the playoffs, right now we are able to predict a bunch of them just 25 games in. There are good players on these bad teams, and I’m positive they can be pried away for a reasonable price.

Now listen. 30 goals a season is relatively good, and Ryder’s accomplished that for Montreal, and that’s good. I’m a Montreal, and Atlanta fan. The only player which I hate on Montreal is Michael Ryder, and why?

At the end of the 2004 season their was a lockout. The reason for the lockout was the game was slow and low scoring. One of the things that they got rid of was the trap. That was to any form of authority of the NHL the trap is slowly sneaking back into the game….